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GitHub用于判断电化学储能器件稿件是否适合投稿Journal of Power Sources。涵盖期刊定位、选题范围、性能与诊断严谨性要求、材料vs器件的区分标准及拒稿启发式规则，辅助作者进行 venue 选择与内容重构。
Trigger Scenarios
作者指定目标期刊为 Journal of Power Sources
需将材料导向故事重构为器件与电化学故事
在器件类与材料类期刊间犹豫
需要了解期刊的性能门槛和拒稿标准
Install
npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill journal-of-power-sources -g -y
SKILL.md
Frontmatter
{
"name": "journal-of-power-sources",
"description": "Use when targeting Journal of Power Sources or deciding whether an electrochemical-power-device manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, the device-and-electrochemistry contribution bar, cell-level performance and diagnostics rigor, house style, the device-vs-materials routing, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics."
}
Journal of Power Sources (journal-of-power-sources)
Journal positioning
Journal of Power Sources (Elsevier) is an archival venue for the science and technology of electrochemical power devices: batteries, fuel cells, and supercapacitors at the cell/electrode/electrolyte level — their engineering, performance, degradation, and diagnostics. Its center of gravity is the device and its electrochemistry: how an electrode, electrolyte, interface, or cell architecture governs measured device behavior (capacity, rate, efficiency, cycle life, failure). A paper that reports only a new active material's properties, with electrochemistry as an afterthought, fits the materials family better; this journal rewards an advance you can read in the cell's performance and diagnostics. This skill is a fit / venue-selection / re-framing tool. It does not replace the journal's current official author guidelines. Before submitting, re-check the live Journal of Power Sources Guide for Authors on the Elsevier site.
When to trigger
- The author names Journal of Power Sources for a battery, fuel-cell, or supercapacitor manuscript centered on cell/electrode/electrolyte engineering or diagnostics.
- A paper must be re-framed from "we made a material" into a device-and-electrochemistry story tied to measured cell performance and degradation.
- The author is deciding between this device venue and the materials-mechanism venue
energy-storage-materials, or the systems venueapplied-energy. - The author needs the journal's cell-level performance and diagnostics rigor bar and desk-reject heuristics.
Scope & topic fit
- Batteries: electrode and electrolyte engineering, cell design, performance, and the electrochemistry governing rate, capacity, and efficiency at the device level.
- Degradation, aging, safety, and failure analysis: cycle-life, calendar aging, thermal behavior, and post-mortem/operando diagnostics of cells.
- Fuel cells and electrolyzers: catalyst layers, membranes/electrolytes, and cell/stack performance, durability, and water/thermal management.
- Supercapacitors and hybrid devices: electrode and electrolyte engineering with device-level rate and energy/power characterization.
- Diagnostics and characterization methods (EIS, operando, modeling of cells) that illuminate device behavior, performance, or degradation mechanisms.
- Cell-level modeling and battery-management-relevant analysis tied to measured devices.
Method & evidence bar
- The central claim is a device/electrochemistry advance: the contribution must be legible in cell-level metrics under clearly stated, realistic protocols, not only in material characterization.
- Electrochemical testing must report mass/areal loading, current density (C-rate or mA cm⁻²), voltage window, electrolyte, and cell configuration; half-cell vs. full-cell context must be honest.
- Performance must be benchmarked against credible device-level state-of-the-art under comparable conditions; capacity/rate claims at trivial loadings are weak.
- Degradation/diagnostics claims require sufficient cycling/aging duration and a mechanism supported by operando or post-mortem evidence, not a single fade curve.
- Reproducibility: report cell-build details, number of cells, and statistics; safety- relevant claims need appropriate characterization.
Structure & house style
- Standard research-article structure (introduction, experimental, results, discussion); the journal uses highlights and a graphical abstract — re-check current article types and requirements on the live guide.
- The introduction frames the device/electrochemistry gap and the performance or degradation problem; the discussion ties electrode/electrolyte/interface variables to measured cell behavior.
- Figures are load-bearing: rate and cycling data at stated loadings, voltage profiles, EIS/operando diagnostics, and post-mortem analysis with controls.
- Supporting information carries full cell-build and testing protocols and extended electrochemical data; main-text figures must support the device claim on their own.
Official-submission checklist
- Before giving submission-ready advice, read
../../resources/source-basis.mdand../../resources/official-source-map.md; start from the Elsevier anchors, then cite the current Journal of Power Sources Guide for Authors page you checked. - Search the live site for "Journal of Power Sources guide for authors" and follow the current Elsevier/Editorial Manager version.
- Re-check article types, highlights and graphical-abstract requirements, and electrochemical-reporting conventions (loadings, current densities, cell type).
- Confirm data-availability and any expectation to report full cell-build and cycling protocols for reproducibility.
- Re-check competing-interests, funding, author-contribution (CRediT), and AI-use disclosure requirements.
- If the live official instructions conflict with this skill, the official instructions win.
Pre-submission self-check
- The advance is legible in cell-level performance/degradation, not only in material characterization.
- Loading, current density, voltage window, electrolyte, and cell configuration are reported; half- vs full-cell context is honest.
- Performance is benchmarked against device-level state-of-the-art under comparable conditions, at realistic loadings.
- Degradation/diagnostics claims have sufficient duration and operando/post-mortem mechanism evidence.
- Cell-build details, number of cells, and statistics are reported for reproducibility.
- Highlights and graphical abstract represent the device/electrochemistry advance.
Common desk-reject triggers
- Material-only study with token electrochemistry and no device-level contribution.
- Capacity/rate claims at trivial mass/areal loadings or with undisclosed test conditions.
- Half-cell results presented as if they were full-cell device performance.
- Single fade curve offered as degradation analysis with no mechanism or operando/post-mortem evidence.
- Performance benchmarked against a strawman or under non-comparable protocols.
- Pure materials-synthesis or pure mechanism paper better suited to a materials venue.
Re-routing decision
- Electrode/electrolyte materials and structure–property mechanism as the core →
energy-storage-materials. - Systems-level energy integration / techno-economic scope →
applied-energy. - Membrane/electrolyte transport mechanism as the central science →
journal-of-membrane-science. - Applied electrocatalysis as a process/material advance →
chemical-engineering-journal. - Highest-profile energy-device breakthrough →
nature-energyorjoule(different selectivity/format; re-check).
Output format
[Fit] High / Medium / Low (one-line reason)
[Target] Journal of Power Sources
[Topic tags] <2–3 closest device subtopics (battery/fuel-cell/supercapacitor)>
[Device advance] <the cell/electrode/electrolyte advance read in device metrics, one line>
[Test conditions] <loading / current density / cell type / window stated?>
[Diagnostics/degradation] <duration + operando/post-mortem mechanism present?>
[Top risk] <the single most likely reason for rejection>
[Official items to re-check] <article type / highlights / electrochemical-reporting / data policy / disclosures>
[Re-route suggestion] <if material/system-level, a better-matched venue>
Version History
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